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Title: THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Year: 1955 Rating: ** The summary promises that Robert Mitchum plays a con-artist with a background of swindl...

Title: MACAO Year: 1952 Rating: **1/2 Produced at the same time as HIS KIND OF WOMAN, another Robert Mitchum adventure-noir opposite RKO own...

Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2 Based on a let's-fight-city-corruption picture from 1928, an...

Title: WHERE DANGER LIVES Year: 1950 Rating: ** From HIS KIND OF WOMAN to THE BIG STEAL, Howard Hughes's RKO Pictures usually had Robert...

Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in HIS KIND OF WOMAN Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2 Legendary eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, after buying R...

Marshall Thompson and Virginia Field in DIAL 1119 Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 A kind of expository TIME OF YOUR LIFE barroom-of-eclectic-chara...

Audrey Totter in TENSION Year: 1949 Rating: ***1/2 From low-budget film noir to big-budget spectaculars, in Golden Age Hollywood there are r...

Marguerite Churchill and Robert Sterling in BUNCO SQUAD Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 Sophisticated beauty Marguerite Churchill was an ingenue i...

Marguerite Churchill in DRACULA'S DAUGHTER Year: 1936 Rating: *** While far from a great Universal DRACULA sequel, his DAUGHTER, played ...

Boris Karloff and Marguerite Churchill in THE WALKING DEAD Year: 1936 Rating: **** With all the ingredients of a 1930's Warner Brothers ...

Title: CALLING DR. DEATH Year: 1943 Rating: **1/2 Judging by the name alone, Universal's INNER SANCTUM movies seems perfect for a kind o...

Year: 1938 Director: Norman Foster Rating: *** Director Norman Foster returned to direct the last of eight MR. MOTO movies starring Peter Lo...

Year: 1939 Rating: *1/2 The only two MR. MOTO programmers not directed by Norman Foster were meant to be part of the similar CHARLIE CHAN fr...

Virginia Field in MR. MOTO'S LAST WARNING Year: 1938 Rating: **** The best MR. MOTO film because LAST WARNING has the most intriguing vi...

Title: MYSTERIOUS MR MOTO Year: 1938 Rating: *** After Norman Foster's lackluster Asian-set MR MOTO TAKES A CHANCE, the b-director sprin...

Peter Lorre and Rochelle Hudson in ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2 The pulpy tagline to the 1940 thriller ISLAND OF DOOMED ME...

Rochelle Hudson in MR. MOTO TAKES A CHANCE Year: 1938 Rating: **1/2 A hybrid of Bette Davis and Fay Wray, gorgeous little b-starlet Rochelle...

year: 1937 cast: Peter Lorre, Virginia Field, Thomas Beck rating: ***1/2 THINK FAST, MR. MOTO : Peter Lorre is Mr. Moto, a Japanese secret a...

Year: 1938 Rating: ***1/2 The third MR. MOTO film, which was a franchise starring Peter Lorre as a Chinese secret agent/crime-fighter, wasn...

Jospeh Cotten and Orson Welles in THE THIRD MAN Year: 1949 Rating: ***** It's not really that big a deal that Orson Welles turns up over...

Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles in JOURNEY INTO FEAR Year: 1943 Rating: **** An entertaining, lightweight crime yarn about a married and ver...

Karen Green from ZEBRA IN THE KITCHEN Year: 1965 Rating: *** Part zoo renovation propaganda, part children's film, ZEBRA IN THE KITCHEN ...

John Bromfield, Rosemary Stack and Max Palmer in THE BIG BLUFF Year: 1955 Rates: ***1/2 In the 1956 crime thriller HOT CARS , b-movie actor ...

John Bromfield and Julie London in CRIME AGAINST JOE Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 In 1956, handsome, muscular, square-jawed yet still somehow a...

Joi Lansing, John Bromfield, Carol Shanno & Mark Dana in HOT CARS Year: 1956 Rates: **** * Despite not making any Film Noir lists, HOT C...

Title: THREE BAD SISTERS Year: 1956 Rating: *** It seems impossible that a 1950's b-movie titled THREE BAD SISTERS wouldn't be total...

Peggie Castle and Biff Elliot in I, THE JURY Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 The first Mike Hammer film was in 3D, and so the first Mike Hammer ac...

Year: 1953 Rating: *** One of many B&W b-crime flicks mistakenly promoted as film noir, CODE TWO is basically propaganda for the police ...

Wesley Addy & Ralph Meeker in KISS ME DEADLY Year: 1955 Rating: ***** When hitchhiking damsel-in-distress Cloris Leachman is picked up ...

Robert Bray and Booth Colman in  MY GUN IS QUICK Year: 1957 Rating: ** Robert Bray plays Mickey Spillane's no-nonsense private-investig...

Pamela Duncan in THE UNDEAD Year: 1957 Rating: **** The same year that Pamela Duncan and Richard Garland starred in Roger Corman' s limp...

Year: 1957 Rating: ** It's a shame Roger Corman's remote island thriller ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS winds up so convoluted because ...